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Italian critical theorist Giorgio Agamben may be best known for his
political writings concerning the curtailing of privacy rights in
the wake of 9/11 and the status of prisoners of war and refugees.
Yet, casting him primarily as a political theorist is misleading
given his significant contributions to the fields of linguistics,
literary theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and religious studies.
This book provides the first ever comprehensive introduction to
Agamben's work as it pertains to the field of education. Written in
a clear and accessible style, Giorgio Agamben: Education without
Ends is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in thinking
education beyond its current standardized forms. The first part of
the book creates a context by highlighting formative experiences in
Agamben's biography that reflect a particular idea of education on
the threshold between life and work. The second part introduces the
notions of infancy, study, community, and happiness, and discusses
their relevance with regard to key issues in educational theory and
practice. The third part shows how conceptual constellations based
on Agamben's work can inspire studious practices within the
spatial, temporal, and curricular infrastructure of educational
institutions as they exist today.
What is philosophical about the practice Philosophy for Children
(P4C)? In this open access book, the authors offer a surprising
answer to this question: a practitioner's contemplation of the
potentiality to speak, or what can be called infancy. Although
essential to the experience of language, this most basic and
profound capacity is often taken for granted or simply
instrumentalized for the educational purposes of developing
critical, caring, or creative thinking skills in the name of
democratic citizenship. Against this kind of instrumentalization,
the authors' radical reconceptualization of P4C focuses on the
experience of infancy that can take place through collective
inquiry. The authors' Philosophy for Infancy (P4I) emerges as a
non-instrumental educational practice that does not dictate what to
say or how to say it but rather turns attention to the fact of
speaking. Referencing critical theorist Giorgio Agamben's extensive
work on the theme of infancy, the authors philosophically engage
the core writings of Matthew Lipman and Ann Sharp, foundational
scholars in the P4C tradition, to rediscover this latent
potentiality in the original P4C program that has yet to be
developed. Not only does the book provide a new theoretical basis
for appreciating what is philosophical in Lipman and Sharp's
formulations of P4C, it also provides a unique elucidation of key
concepts in Agamben's work-such as infancy, demand, rules,
adventure, happiness, love, and anarchy-within a collective,
educational practice. Throughout, the authors offer applications of
P4I that will provide anchoring points to inspire educators to
return to philosophical experimentation with language as a means
without end. The ebook editions of this book are available open
access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on
bloomsburycollections.com.
What is philosophical about the practice Philosophy for Children
(P4C)? In this open access book, the authors offer a surprising
answer to this question: a practitioner's contemplation of the
potentiality to speak, or what can be called infancy. Although
essential to the experience of language, this most basic and
profound capacity is often taken for granted or simply
instrumentalized for the educational purposes of developing
critical, caring, or creative thinking skills in the name of
democratic citizenship. Against this kind of instrumentalization,
the authors' radical reconceptualization of P4C focuses on the
experience of infancy that can take place through collective
inquiry. The authors' Philosophy for Infancy (P4I) emerges as a
non-instrumental educational practice that does not dictate what to
say or how to say it but rather turns attention to the fact of
speaking. Referencing critical theorist Giorgio Agamben's extensive
work on the theme of infancy, the authors philosophically engage
the core writings of Matthew Lipman and Ann Sharp, foundational
scholars in the P4C tradition, to rediscover this latent
potentiality in the original P4C program that has yet to be
developed. Not only does the book provide a new theoretical basis
for appreciating what is philosophical in Lipman and Sharp's
formulations of P4C, it also provides a unique elucidation of key
concepts in Agamben's work-such as infancy, demand, rules,
adventure, happiness, love, and anarchy-within a collective,
educational practice. Throughout, the authors offer applications of
P4I that will provide anchoring points to inspire educators to
return to philosophical experimentation with language as a means
without end. The ebook editions of this book are available open
access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on
bloomsburycollections.com.
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